Their blatant censorship and phalanxes of hired shills is finally costing them market share. There are hints of awareness rising up that heretofore had been frighteningly absent.

In case you are fed up but have not found alternatives, I will share three with you. I walked away from well over a thousand “friends” and haven’t missed the content edited by Palo Alto new-agers one little bit.

and finally a slightly different cat, more business and professional contact oriented, Linked In
where I am Ted Dunlap

I don’t know you well enough to recommend one over another. Look them all over and see what you think. Send me a “Hello” and comment on my blog posts there.

Which brings up the absence of a comments section here. I tried it briefly, but found quickly that it would be a full-time job to edit out the spam, advertising and foul-fingered junk. No thanks. Researching and composing is as far as I want to take this bit.

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There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time.